‘If Donald Trump means what he says, the West is dead as a meaningful concept. The international system and liberal trading order upheld by the US since the Second World War will disintegrate in short order. The Asian balance of power will unravel. Weak countries on the Pacific rim will be left with no choice: cut off by an isolationist America, they will succumb to the orbit of an expansionist China. Japan will rearm at break-neck speed.’